International versions of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Countries of the world that have or had their own version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (painted in purple) As of February 2020

This table lists all international variants in the television game show franchise Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? that have been broadcast since the debut of the original British version of the show on 4 September 1998.

International versions

Legend:

  Currently airing
  No longer airing
  Upcoming or returning version

A † symbol following a name indicates that the host of the program has died.

Unlicensed versions

"Is that your final answer?" catchphrases

The Millionaire franchise's catchphrase is "Is that your final answer?" (more commonly said by some versions' hosts as "Final answer?", "Chris' Final Answer" or simply "Final?"), a question derived from a rule requirement that the players must clearly indicate their choices before being made official (since the nature of the game allows the player to think aloud about the options before committing to an answer). As a side effect, once a final answer has been given, it is locked in and cannot be changed. Many parodies of the game show capitalised on this phrase. However, not every version has taken over such a catchphrase so that the answer is stated rather informally in that case.

Players can prevent the host from asking this question, by stating themselves "final answer" or some variant after they declare their choice.

Another hallmark of the show is using dramatic pauses before the host acknowledges whether or not the answer was correct. Occasionally, the host will only announce if the answer is correct after the commercial break.

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Uses material from the Wikipedia article International versions of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, released under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.